PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 10, 11 July 1912, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-BEGAL. His Excellency the Governor entertained at, luncheon at Government House yesterday tb# following officers of the Defence Forces:— Major-General Godley, C.B.* Colonel E. S. .Heard, Colonel G. a B. Wolfe, Captain D. C. SpracerSmitfa, Colonel E. W. C. Chater, T.D., Colonel R. J. Coffins, C.M.G., 1.5.0., V.D., A.D.0., Colonel A. H. Russell, A.D.C., Colonel R. W. Tate, Colonel G. Campbell, V.D-, Major J. K. Cochrant, Lieut. -Colonel Harcourt Turner, Lieut. - Cdonel Johnston, Colonel X' Logan, Colonel C. T. Major, D.5.0., Lieut. - ColoDel W. R. Bloomfield, Major W. G. Braiihwaifce, D.5.0., Colonel V. S. Smyth, Colonel A. Day, V.D., A.D.C., Colonel 14. A. Cbaffey, V.D., Lieut.Colonel Pringle, Major W. R. Pinwill, Colonel H. Bauchop, C.M.G., Colonel T. C. Nicofls, V.D., Lieut. -Colonel M'Ara, Captain A. C. Critchley Salmonson, Major 3. D. Grant, V.C. This morning His Excellency inspected at the Trentham camp the cadets who are to go to Canada. To-morrow he -will visit Mastertou. Next Tuesday evening the Governor will attend the New Zealand Boxing Championships at the Town Hall. The next day he -will attend the first day of the Wellington Racing Club's Winter Meeting, and will also be present at the Racing Club's dinner to be held in the ■Wellington Club that evening. On Thursday evening Lord and Lady 'Islington will attend the race ball to be held in the Town HalL On Friday evening His Excellency will attend a dinner to be given in the Wellington. Club" by' the English Public Schools Association, and on Saturday evening their Excellencies -will be present at the Savage Club's "Ladies' night," to be held in the Town HalL Mr. J, A. Pike, of Wellington, will be a 'passenger for London by the Tainui to-morrow. ilr. William Pryoar, secretary of the Employers' Federation, returned from Auckland yesterday. He leaves fox Dunfedin shortly-. Major-Xsfin«raJ Godley -and a mnnKr of the officer* who have been attending the Military Conference in Wellington, went oat to Treniham to-day. Dr. P. P. M'Evedy's many friends will fcegret to learn, thai) he was ito be operated on to-day for appendicitis. He was lat work ac usual yesterday, the attack coming on suddenly this morning. Mr. TJ. EL Harty, the well-known exWellington representative hockey player, is returning to Wellington, and will be playing in his old position in the Wellington Club, possibly on Saturday next. Mr. Arthur J. Smith, youngest eon of the late Mr. Alfred Smith, taflor, of Wellington, has passed and got his' chief engineers certificate at Bombay (India}. Mr. Smith serve*! his apprenticeship at the Petone Workshops. The fust telegram that the Hon. Mr. Massey sent awsjr on taking his seat as Prime Minister was one in answer to a congratulatory message from his oldest friend in New Zealand, Mr. Thomas Wyllie, of Papatoetoe. Mr. Wyllie is 96 years of age, and stffi. Hal« and hearty 'withal. In more senses than one he is the new Prime Minister's oldest fri«nd, for it was under Mr. Wyllie's care that Mr. Massey came out to New Zealand to join his parents, forty-one years ago. Ex-members of the 56th Regiment who ace in New Zealand — they are nnmerous — will be interested to learn ;that the regiment is leaving Dinapore, Bengal, for England. In a letter to SergeantMajor E. Bezar, of Rintool-street, Wellington, interesfcmg information is contained relative to Sergeant-Drnmmer James Deacon, who was very popular with bis colleagues. Deacon enlisted on 17th August, 1855, and has been with the regiment ever since. He was presented to His Majesty at Calcutta last January. He is the fioider of the Zulu War medal, 1879, the long service medal, the meritorious service medal (with £10 annuity), and the DurJbar medal, 1911. Dr. James Hudson, of Xapawera, who was killed in a motor-car accident on Monday, was (states the Colonist) well Known in Nelson, having practised' in that city for many years. He was born in London, in 1854, educated at ithe Devizes Grammar School, and graduated M.B. at the London University. He practised his profession in England for ioxne time, and then went to South Africa, where he was in practice near Kimbetley, for two years. Shortly afterward^ he came to New Zealand, and praefcked in Nelson until he removed to Tapawera a few years ago. He was a member of the Nelson City Council from 1901 to April, 1905, when he resigned on being appointed District Health Officer for Nelson and Mariborough. He married a daughter of the late Bey. J. C. Andrew, of Mastertoo, in 1886, and leaves * widow and large family. During his residence in Tapawera Dr. Hudson took an active interest ia the welfare of the community. He wsas secretary to "the* Mofcueka, Valley Hortiooltmal Society, and, was closely asgocialed with chmch. affairs. The deceased gentleman was a brother of Mr. W. B. Hudson, of tie New Zealand Government Life Insurance Department, Mr. G. V. Hudson, of the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department, and Miss Hudson, of Wellington, who recently returned from Germany. The late Mr. Charles Hudson, at one time Assistant General Manager of Railways in New Zealand, waa also a brother.